To Kill a Mockingbird is a popular Pulitzer Prize winning novel written by Harper Lee about justice in a small Southern American town. Published in 1960, it became standard reading for millions of young people.

It is the story of a young girl nicknamed Scout growing up during the American Depression in Alabama in the 1930’s. The book quickly became a best-seller, won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a movie in 1962, with Gregory Peck winning an Oscar for his memorable portrayal of Atticus.

By 2015, book sales of To Kill a Mockingbird were reported by Harper Collins to be more than 40 million worldwide, making it one of the most widely read American novels of the 20th century. In 2018 it was voted as America’s Best-Loved Novel, further cementing this book as a beloved classic of American Literature.

Here is a collection of some of the most popular quotes from To Kill A Mockingbird:

1. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. – Atticus

2. Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself. – Atticus

3. You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ‘em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change. – Atticus

4. Things are never as bad as they seem. – Miss Maudie

5. There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ‘em all away from you. That’s never possible. – Atticus

6. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. – Atticus

7. It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird. – Atticus

8. It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you. – Atticus

9. I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. – Atticus

10. We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple. – Miss Maudie

11. People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for. – Atticus

12. It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. – Scout

13. Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? – Atticus

14. Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open. – Atticus

15. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. – Atticus

16. Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. – Atticus

17. Things are always better in the morning.

John F. Kennedy served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate before becoming the 35th president of the United States of America in 1961. As president, John F.Kennedy faced a number of foreign crises, especially in Cuba and Berlin.

John F. Kennedy managed to secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty to ease cold war tensions, the Alliance for Progress and the Civil Rights Act. On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.

The following are a wonderful collection of the most inspirational John F. Kennedy quotes that I hope you will enjoy.

1. Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. – John F. Kennedy

2. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. – John F. Kennedy

3. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. – John F. Kennedy

4. Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. – John F. Kennedy

5. When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. – John F. Kennedy

6. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or make it the last. – John F. Kennedy

7. Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. – John F. Kennedy

8. We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives. – John F. Kennedy

9. If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. – John F. Kennedy

10. Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. ― John F. Kennedy

11. In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. ― John F. Kennedy

12. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ― John F. Kennedy

13. Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. ― John F. Kennedy

14. The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet. ― John F. Kennedy

15. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future. ― John F. Kennedy

16. If not us, who? If not now, when? ― John F. Kennedy

17. Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. ― John F. Kennedy

18. In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it. ― John F. Kennedy

19. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. ― John F. Kennedy

20. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. ― John F. Kennedy

I hope that you will really enjoy this wonderful collection of quotes. I have carefully chosen the following quotes in the hope that they will inspire, motivate and empower you to believe in yourself.

Getting into the positive daily habit of reading some quotes can be a great way to change your mindset and feel more empowered.

1. If you aren’t feeling passionate about your life, skip TV tonight and write a whole new vision for what you’d really love to experience. ― Steve Pavlina

2. The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself. ― Bob Burg

3. Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.

4. Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. – Michael Jordan

5. Do you know why it’s hard to be happy? It’s because we refuse to let go of the things that make us sad. – Bruce Lipton

6. Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack. — Seneca

7. You must see it. You must believe it. And then you should never stop working to make it happen. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

8. Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more. – Osho

9.  Things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want. ― Jeffrey Gitomer

10. May every sunrise hold more promise, and every sunset hold more peace. – Unknown

11. You will always attract what you believe you’re worth. ― BossBabe

12. We are like magnets – like attract like. You become and attract what you think. ― Rhonda Byrne

13. You are the designer of your destiny; you are the author of your story. – Lisa Nichols

14. Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. – Denis Waitley

15. You can’t win in life if you’re losing in your mind.― Tony Gaskins

16. When you know clearly what you want, you’ll wake up every morning excited about life. – Mark Victor Hansen

17. The only way to win with a toxic person is not to play.

18. The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy. – Robert Tew

19. The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don’t want. – Iyanla Vanzant

20. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe